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Right here’s what we’re watching in Washington:
Bipartisan SSI Restoration Act Launched in Congress
Consultant Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.), alongside U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Sick.), and Rep. James Moylan (R-GU), led 30 lawmakers in introducing the Supplemental Safety Earnings (SSI) Restoration Act, a bipartisan invoice to strengthen vital SSI advantages that assist over 7 million seniors and People with disabilities.
The invoice would replace SSI’s asset and revenue limits and improve the SSI profit fee to 100% of the Federal Poverty Stage. Moreover, it will broaden SSI to cowl Americans residing in Puerto Rico, Guam, and different U.S. Territories, who’re at the moment excluded from this system.
A brand new Roosevelt Institute report discovered that implementing the provisions of the SSI Restoration Act would cut back poverty amongst SSI recipients by 60%.
Justice in Getting old has advocated for and endorsed the SSI Restoration Act. Examine our work to replace and enhance the SSI program.
HUD Releases Proposed Rule on Work Necessities and Time Limits
This week, the Division of Housing and City Growth (HUD) printed a proposed rule that may enable Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) and HUD-assisted house owners to impose work necessities and closing dates for HUD housing help.
Beneath HUD’s proposal, PHAs and house owners would be capable of impose work necessities of as much as 40 hours per week and closing dates as brief as two years. Older adults age 62 and over and folks with disabilities would usually be exempt from these restrictions.
No matter exemptions, HUD’s proposal would take away housing help from older adults and folks with disabilities. Older adults age 50-61 could be topic to work necessities and closing dates, and older and disabled individuals who could also be exempt would nonetheless lose help as a consequence of administrative obstacles and purple tape.
Find out about how HUD’s proposal will worsen housing instability on this factsheet produced in collaboration with a few of our housing companions. Justice in Getting old will even share extra sources on HUD’s proposed rule within the coming weeks.
Feedback on the proposed rule are due Could 1, 2026.
Take Motion to Oppose CMS and Congressional Actions that Undermine Medicaid
During the last a number of weeks, the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has taken actions to undermine and minimize Medicaid applications, significantly home- and community-based providers (HCBS). These actions embody misleadingly claiming that elevated spending on HCBS signifies program integrity points and withholding $259 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota.
Now, Republican Leaders in Congress are doubling down on these disingenuous claims and investigations, making an attempt to distract and shift blame for the huge Medicaid cuts enacted final 12 months as a part of the finances reconciliation act (H.R. 1). As our new weblog explains, lawmakers knew all alongside their vote to chop Medicaid would hurt older adults and folks with disabilities.
Justice in Getting old urges advocates to affix the combat to guard Medicaid HCBS in Congress and state capitals:
Use our Medicaid protection sources to take motion.
Justice in Getting old and Companions Urge Congress to Think about Hurt to Older Adults Stemming from Aggressive Immigration Enforcement
Final week, Justice in Getting old, together with 110 getting older and allied organizations, despatched a letter to Congress urging them to think about the harms of the administration’s aggressive immigration insurance policies on older adults because it negotiates appropriations to the Division of Homeland Safety. Within the final 12 months, older adults and folks with disabilities have been harmed by the administration’s aggressive method to immigration enforcement.
The huge new funding Congress accepted final summer season via H.R. 1 continues to gasoline violence and inhumane detention situations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Safety (CBP), whereas stoking worry that stops many older adults from accessing well being care and social providers that assist their fundamental wants.
Our letter urges Congress to enact safeguards in immigration enforcement; codify the delicate places coverage; repeal immigration enforcement funding provisions; restore entry to Medicare, Medicaid, ACA tax credit, and SNAP to lawfully current immigrants; and add significant measures that rein in federal brokers.
Learn our letter, and see our webinars on current points impacting older immigrants.
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